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Call to Sephardim to Immigrate to Mexico
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When, in 1492, Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon expelled believers in the unity of God, those very same Catholic rulers simultaneously financed Columbus’s discovery of the New…

Contributor:

Francisco Rivas Puigcerver

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Date:

1889

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Sephardi, Exile, Assimilation, Migration

Categories:

Political Culture
The Voice of the Youth
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To Our Brethren and Sisters in the Exile, Peace Be with You! “If I help not myself, who will help me?” (Hillel) Nearly two thousand years have elapsed since, in an evil hour, after an heroic…

Contributor:

BILU

Places:

Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)

Date:

1882

Subjects:

Zionism, Assimilation, Exile, Aliyah

Categories:

Political Culture, Firsthand accounts, Letters
On Emancipation and Jewish Education
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Throughout the duration of the exile of Israel, Jews worshiped God in awe, and from the time that freedom was granted to them and the exile of the body was made easier, the exile of the soul increased…

Contributor:

Shaul Brach

Places:

Kasho, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Košice, Slovakia)
Kasho (Košice, Slovakia)

Date:

1911

Subjects:

Education, Exile, Emancipation, Assimilation, Jewish identity

Categories:

Political Culture, Pedagogy & Schooling
Protest against Zionism
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We recently received from Vienna the new newspaper of the “Zionists,” Die Welt. It appeared on the eve of the holiday of the Feast of Weeks, which reminds us more than any other holiday that it was…

Contributor:

Protestrabiner

Places:

Berlin, Germany

Date:

1897

Subjects:

Zionism, Assimilation, Jewish identity, Nationalism, Exile

Categories:

Political Culture, Journalism, Firsthand accounts